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Political cartoon by Dr. Seuss depicting Japanese Americans as sleeper agents ready to attack the United States from within following the attack on Pearl Harbor. While a student at Dartmouth College in the 1920s, Theodor Seuss Geisel drew cartoons for the campus's humor magazine, the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, some of which contain anti-black racist and anti-Semitic elements [citation needed].
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
[7] [40] [41] Adam Szetela of Newsweek opined that both the right and the left are "guilty" of banning books, citing the ban of To Kill a Mockingbird in California schools, Dr. Seuss' books being pulled from libraries and bookstores, and videos of liberals burning Harry Potter books. [42]
Banned Books Week was established in 1982 by Judith Krug, a librarian and First Amendment proponent. ... A full map of what U.S. states are challenging books can be found online at the ALA's ...
The Chicago Democrat, impeached and removed from office by the General Assembly in 2009, then sentenced to federal prison for political crimes, filed suit in federal court to reverse a ban ...
Six Dr. Seuss books -- including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo -- will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that ...
In 2019, the NAACP called for a ban of all Dr. Seuss books from public schools and libraries, citing discriminatory depictions of Blacks, Jews, Indigenous peoples, Muslims, and Asians. [75] In 2023, the group sued to block a book from being banned from school libraries.
Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced this week it would stop publishing six Dr. Seuss books for racist and insensitive imagery. "Green Eggs and Ham," is not one of them.